What does BATCH=yes really mean? (portmaster vs. bpm)

[Sam Lawrance]

On 13/04/2006, at 7:23 AM, RW wrote:

> On Wednesday 12 April 2006 13:18, Sam Lawrance wrote:
>> Just hours ago I went to give sysutils/portmaster a try. An OPTIONS
>> selection screen appeared on the first run.  I then ran the following
>> command, thinking I could leave portmaster going and wander off:
>>
>> portmaster -a -m "BATCH=yes"
>>
>> Again an OPTIONS dialog appeared.  It seems that portmaster was
>> running the command 'make BATCH=yes config', which is an interactive
>> operation.  I'm not sure whether this is incorrect behaviour from the
>> 'config' target, or perhaps a deficiency in portmaster.
>
> BATCH is an instuction not to build ports with IS_INTERACTIVE set -  
> typically
> ports with legal conditions that need to be agreed to.
>
> It's also used as a hint to build without asking for configuration  
> options.
> This secondary meaning makes no sense with "make config". It seems  
> to me the
> ports system is behaving correctly and portmaster is doing  
> something odd.

I'm not so sure about that.  I would have expected it to select the  
default set of options, just as it would if you were building with  
BATCH set.